San Diego State running back Rashaad Penny was named Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday morning, earning a weekly conference honor for the seventh time this season and a school-record ninth time in his career.

But later in the day, Penny was snubbed by the Doak Walker Award, which did not include the nation’s leading rusher in its list of finalists for a prize that goes to the nation’s premier running back.

Instead, the Dallas-based award named as finalists Bryce Love of Stanford, Saquon Barkley of Penn State and Wisconsin’s Jonathan Taylor. Penny also was ignored by the Maxwell Award, which goes to the collegiate player of the year. The finalists for that honor are Love, Barkley and Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield.

“He’s as good as anybody they invited, I’ll promise you that,” said SDSU head coach Rocky Long, speaking to the Doak Walker finalists. “Probably better than the guys they invited. It upsets me for Rashaad and it upsets me for his teammates. It doesn’t personally upset me because I’m old and realistic about the way the world works.”

SDSU offensive coordinator Jeff Horton was even more pointed with his remarks.

“I think it’s a joke. I think it’s a disgrace,” Horton said. “How you can have the leading rusher in the nation and leading all-purpose yardage guy, and what’s he second in touchdowns in the nation? To not have him as one of the finalists, to me it discredits the award. … The kid’s done more than anybody else on the field at that position.”

Horton has coached the NCAA’s top two career rushers, with Pumphrey the past four years at SDSU and as an assistant coach at Wisconsin in 1999 when Ron Dayne was a senior (and Heisman winner).

“Rashaad Penny is right there,” Horton said.

Penny took it in stride more than his coaches, but couldn’t say his teammates would do likewise.

“I don’t think they know about it yet, but I’m pretty sure tonight later on tonight Twitter’s going to be blowing up with mentions; it’s going to be pretty crazy,” Penny said following Monday afternoon’s practice. “It’s really out of our hands. All we can do is just play the game.”

Added Penny: “I’m not that mad. Honestly, I wasn’t looking forward to being a finalist. I know how the East Coast and all that type of stuff is. It’s politics. That’s what college football is.”

Penny also is a semifinalist for the Walter Camp Award, which honors the nation’s most outstanding player. Finalists for that award will be announced next week. Ballots for the the Heisman Trophy went out today and must be returned by the afternoon of Dec. 4. Finalists will be announced that evening and invited to New York for a ceremony Dec. 9 to announce the winner.

Asked if SDSU should have had a Heisman campaign for Rashaad Penny (as it did last year for D.J. Pumphrey), Long said: “I don’t think that makes one bit of difference. I think the Heisman campaign is handled by ESPN. … I sure hope he will be (invited to New York), but I don’t think he will be because of East Coast prejudice and I think there’s a Power Five prejudice. It doesn’t matter how good the guy is.”

When asked if he should get an invitation to New York, Penny said: “I don’t know what (voters) going to do. It’s up to them. My teammates are more excited about me just trying to get an invite or a table at the Heisman. I think that would be fine. We’ll see what happens.”

Penny was recognized by the Mountain West after scoring touchdowns on a 100-yard kickoff return and a 70-yard punt return in SDSU’s 42-23 victory over Nevada. He had a school-record 429 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns in the game.

The kick return touchdown against the Wolf Pack was the seventh of his career for Penny. He now shares the FBS career record in the category with Clemson’s C.J. Spiller (2006-09) and Houston’s Tyron Carrier (2008-11).

Penny also rushed for 222 yards and two touchdowns, although the Mountain West Offensive Player of the Week award went to UNLV’s Armani Rogers. The freshman quarterback had 404 all-purpose yards (211 passing/193 rushing) in the Rebels’ win over New Mexico.

Penny leads the nation in all-purpose yards (2,462) and rushing yards (1,824). He now owns SDSU’s single-season record for all-purpose yards and is 310 yards away from breaking the school rushing record set last season by D.J. Pumphrey (2,133). Penny has two games to pass his former teammate.

The Aztecs (9-2, 5-2 MW) conclude the regular season Friday at 12:30 p.m. against New Mexico at SDCCU Stadium and will play a yet-to-be-determined bowl game next month.

On Sunday, Penny was named the Walter Camp National FBS Player of the Week. He is also a semifinalist this season for the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award (nation’s most outstanding player).

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